A native Arkansan, Dr. Robert McCarron received his medical degree and performed his internship at the University of Arkansas. He completed his orthopaedic residency in 1982 at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, as well as two fellowships: AO International Fellowship at Kantonspittal in Basel, Switzerland and a spine fellowship at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Victoria, Australia.

Following his fellowships, Dr. McCarron returned to Texas in 1983 as an instructor and assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at Texas Tech. In 1988, he moved back to his home state of Arkansas and planted his roots in Conway, where he founded Conway Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Clinic.